. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. merican colony moved off under such auspicesnor with so firm a tread. The Pennsylvania which was in Vir-ginia, in the New Netherlands, in the new
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. merican colony moved off under such auspicesnor with so firm a tread. The Pennsylvania which was in Vir-ginia, in the New Netherlands, in the new Sweden, in the grant tothe Duke of York, and as Lord Baltimore claimed partly in Mary-land (hence the dispute which ended in the celebrated Mason andDixon line) took a title which remained unmolested by royalty,and a territorial shape which corresponds with that of to-day, ex-cept the small triangle on Lake Erie, which was afterwards WN OF NEW YORK.—Ntw York, like New Jersey,Delaware and Pennsylvania, came into existence by the partitionof the New Netherlands. When the Dutch authority passed toEngland (1664), the soil of the New Netherlands passed to the * We are sorry, for the sake of sentiment, not to be able to draw the usual pictureof Penns treaty with the Indians. It is not historic, but a pretty piece of imagina-tion, due perhaps to Wests painting of Penn, the Indians and the treaty treaty was simply Penns WILLIAM PENN.
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